What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[Loja man]

Getting bag ready…hitting the range tomorrow. Unseasonably cool tomorrow, projected high of 84 degrees…afternoon rain.

Shooting my .54 calibre Early Plains Rifle….very excited to see how it shoots.
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Sorry guys, but I just can’t take enough pictures of this gun

That’s a great looking gun!

 

[Grenadier1758]

Had our club's match today and I decided it was time to test my repaired shoulder out with the 36 caliber flint lock. This was not the day for me to be demonstrating the virtues of a flint lock. I only had two dull flints with me, so I struggled with hang fires and failure to light then pan. Finally knapped some edge to one of the flints and then began to hit targets where I aimed and didn't have to rely on follow through to keep the shots in the scoring ring.

 

[Graybeard2A]

I finally pulled the trigger on a Kibler SMR Wednesday in 45 cal. I've started on her & am trying to find designs for carving.

 

[sheriff john]

Still trying to sort loose round balls, conicals, etc. lying around here in a dozen places. Micrometer's put away today, ended up digging out mold blocks, sticking balls into cavities to determine size. Those that don't fit a mold go into the "question" box. Much faster and I don't need the reading glasses.

Some can tell the difference between a .311 and a .321 by eyeball. Those days are long past. Flints were easy. Screws? Uh...

 

[Gordoncourtney]

It’s stinking hot west of London drought everywhere So sitting under umbrella fiddling with my Gibbs guns I am making , yes three I had a big chunk of walnut for £55. two flint ones and a percussion one

The finished one made in 1972 .625 bore has a 1820 east India lock.

Enjoy

 

[akroguy]

Figuring out location of L&R set trigger assy in my Lancaster build. Already dreaming of next build and this one ain't even remotely close to done!

 

[Rod Man]

Well,

After all the ball board discussion, I took and end piece of the walnut I found and cut it up. I’m not really a wood working guy but I figured I would use these to start playing around with it little bit and see what happens. Got the holes drilled and now I’ll start shaping and playing around with some light carving and such. Will probably give most of them away. Don’t worry the carved ones will probably end up in the wood stove!

 

[Trooper]

I put together a small leather pouch to hang off my possibles bag strap to hold those home made DIY percussion caps. They wont feed through the snail or any brass percussion dispenser. I gave all three of our Hawken rifles a quick once over and checked the bore on each for any signs of rust. that German Ballistol is an excellent preservative.

 

[Trooper]

I put together a leather leather pouch to hold DYI percussion caps. These won’t work in any brass capper that I’m aware of, at any rate, a small pouch fits nicely onto my possibles bag strap. I made more percussion caps and gave all three of our Hawken rifle bores a “once over” with Ballistol.

 

[Loja man]

Worked on powder horn with my oldest son!

 

[Rob Davis]

Well temperature cooled off some, so I made it out to the shop to cast some round balls. Made a bunch of .380 for a 1851 Navy revolver and .490 for a Kentucky long rifle I recently built. It was a good weekend here in NC. Keep shooting black powder brothers!

 

[Urban Coyote]

Setup my furnace and ran ball .315, .353, .370, .445 and .535. I'm stocked up pretty well now. Did a batch of .495 yesterday.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Packed up my gear and set it all out on the kitchen table. High tomorrow is 81 degrees, taking my two grandsons & going to spend the day at the range.

 

[Gtrubicon]

I got to shoot my first homemade paper cartridges out of my 44 cal Remmie. Used my homemade caps also. It went very well.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Haven't shot for a couple of weeks and that's the last time I cleaned as well. Checked my barrel today and nothing but some ballistol came out on the patch. Re-lubed and put her away until next week. Too hot and dry to shoot here right now, a hot patch, ember or spark would light 'er up.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Haven't shot for a couple of weeks and that's the last time I cleaned as well. Checked my barrel today and nothing but some ballistol came out on the patch. Re-lubed and put her away until next week. Too hot and dry to shoot here right now, a hot patch, ember or spark would light 'er up.

I got heatstroke several years ago, it’s robbed me of my summer enjoyment ever since. We’ve been upper 90’s low 100’s, just kills me to be out in it…finally for the couple days, the projected highs are in the low 80’s.

Awesome, taking the grandkids shooting tomorrow…

 

[COTNTOP]

First cool, low humidity day in 2 months. Got my new barrel and ran it through my new woods walk course.. Did pretty good but got to pick up pointers how to set up a bag, every thing jumbled up.

 

[Gordoncourtney]

After weeks got my 22 and 177 bsa pcp air guns together it keeps me in practice and dead accurate at 50 yards but no squirrels around in months. Had one the other day then pondering .6 lead round balls if only I could legally shoot my .623 /12bore cape rifle the .6 is perfect No bears in UK ha ha. Queens got some big stags on her estates Novices must be brain damage .6 .58 .5 .45. .40 .36. ?????!!!!!!! Are you after bear or rabbits ????? comes first I guess !!!!! But like my 177 & 22. 650 ft sec. &. 720 ft sec. The 177 is faster and shoots flatter but when I cronoed both at 50 yard targets. They both had the same ft lbs of energy at target

The day went wrong when i went to book a government test on wifes bmw Z3 no doubt made in USA. Steering wheel vibrating when i brake above 40. So trying to clean out the abs notched wheels almost impossible to see just a tiny slot. Got it booked in again Wednesday as got an immunology infusion tomorrow. No big deal.

My cape rifle was upstairs bloody heavy much more than anything else I have perfect for big game. Better to have two a shotgun and a rifle. I cannot weigh it on the kitchen big scales so might go for 13 lbs.

Of course In the later 1800s the martini 577-450 with ammunition plentiful took over in africa. Your boy would obviously have a muzzle loader mine sporting probably came from Cape Town with sweat marks on the wood flip sights to 700 yards

Sorry to drown on but this conversation on ball sizes gets you down. Just shoot whatever makes you happy and if it’s a big bear you are probably going to die anyway if you miss. Ha ga

God bless you all



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[Gordoncourtney]

Left off two big .623 holes. Cape rifle by Reilly 1853 by its serial no

I wish you all well

 

[smo]

Stitched up a couple cows knees and applied bees wax, inside and out..